... Explanation: Positioning his camera and tripod on planet Earth, near Maricopa, Arizona, USA, astrophotographer Joe Orman created this trailing display of the ongoing sky-full-of-planets on May 3rd. ... Of course these planets, Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn all still dazzle in western skies near sunset, but sky gazers who want to see Mercury should look soon. ... Publications with keywords: planets - conjunction . ... Venus Near the Moon . A Superior Conjunction Of Mercury . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... 2012 June 30 . Conjunctions near Dawn . Image Credit Copyright : Luis Argerich . Explanation: Now shining in eastern skies at dawn , bright planets Venus and Jupiter join the Pleiades star cluster in this sea and sky scape, recorded earlier this week near Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... In orbit around Vesta , NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived there last July, but is nearing the end of its visit to the main belt asteroid. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

delay-doppler image of the Maxwell Montes region of Venus, taken using the S-Band (2380 MHz or 12.6 cm) radar transmitter and the 305m dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in June of 1988. The horizontal resolution is about 2 km. ... This delay-doppler radar image shows craters near the North pole of Mercury. The resolution of this image is about 15 km. ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... On January 23, 1998 the space probe NEAR was on its way to its closest approach to Earth. ... However, we were able to record a series of images of the space probe shortly before the sunglint event, and we have assembled them into a movie. At the TIRGO observatory, an observation of the space probe NEAR was organized for the night of January 22-23, 1998. ... We show here a preliminary movie (MPEG format, 412kb) made from 74 frames, each lasting 5 seconds. ...

Left: An image in the near infrared (1.65 ЮМm) around RY Tauri, using a special mode of the Subaru HiCIAO coronagraph, the polarized intensity image. This type of observation is preferred for faint emissions associated with scattered light around planet-forming disks, as there is less light from the much brighter star. ... A white ellipse shows the position of the midplane of the disk, which is observed at millimeter wavelengths. ... Right: Schematic view of the observed infrared light. ...

... The accuracy of calculation of both INTERBALL spacecraft (SC) motion has been estimated at the IKI. ... The 30 days measuring intervals were used during the Tail probe (TP) orbital data treatment, and 15 days intervals - during the Auroral probe (AP) orbit determination. ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indap.htm for the Auroral probe; . http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indtp.htm for the Tail probe . ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/ssc.htm , or http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/amisan.htm . ...

... Astronomers have used a new technique to see the faint light from a planet that is orbiting a distant star. ... Instead, astronomers found them by looking for telltale clues, such as how the light from a star dims when an exo-planet passes in front of it, or how it wobbles because of the pull of an exo-planet s gravity. Astronomers can learn a lot about exo-planets that move in front of their stars. This is because the starlight passes through the exo-planet s atmosphere on its way to Earth. ...

SN 1999aa - A Third Supernova Discovery . Just 9 weeks after the discovery of SN 1998ey a suspect was found 1" east and 28" north from the centre of NGC 2595 on Feb.11.0166 U.T.. ... Further inspection of 6 images of NGC 2595 taken during Feb. and March 1998 showed no object at the position of the suspect. ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory recorded SN 1999aa on Feb. 11.6 and 12.6 UT, the first obervation being only 14 hours after the discovery. ... Back to Supernova 1999aa in NGC 2595 . ...

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October 30-31, 1992 . ... Modified images of the October 30-31, 1992 event. (a) - This NRH image is adapted to show a very bright loop-like source over AR 7321 near the SW-limb identified with the X1.7 soft X-ray LDE event peaked on 30d at 17:30 UT (see the GOES-7 soft X-ray plot also at the upper right corner). ... Here and hereafter, the white features are radio filaments. (c) - This modified NRH image shows some large scale microwave blob chains and structures. ...

... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset . Description: It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Low cost beginner eyepieces. Send SASE for price list. ... Listed Since October 26, 2004 . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: Calibration, the ATCA, and Up: Flagging, Manipulating and Examining Previous: Examining Visibility Variables . The task uvedit allows you to apply some specific sorts of corrections or modifications to your visibility dataset. For example, there may be a clock error that needs fixing, or the antenna coordinates were wrong so that u and v need to be recomputed, or the phase centre was wrong requiring a phase rotation and u and v recomputation. ... UVEDIT . ... Input visibility dataset . ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... I took some quick images of the Moon just by putting an Ipod Touch to the eyepiece of the telescope. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Image credit: Colin Johnston & Julie Thompson/Armagh Planetarium) . ... I am looking forward to sharing the sky with our visitors when our monthly Open Nights return in October (date to be confirmed). ...

... Indiana Jones is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. ... There's the intrigue of the megaliths of Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the earthen figures of Britain and Peru, and the bloody rituals of the Maya. ... To make sense of these great structures and sophisticated concepts, archaeologists and astronomers have pooled their talents. ... People could use these alignments to synchronize their calendars or track the exact path of a celestial object. ... Maya glyphs of Venus. ...

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... A steel needle stroked with such a "lodestone" became "magnetic" as well, and around 1000 the Chinese found that such a needle, when freely suspended, pointed north-south. ... On Earth one needs a sensitive needle to detect magnetic forces, and out in space they are usually much, much weaker. ... More about magnetism . ... We can trace in space (in our imagination, at least!) the lines one obtains when one "follows the direction of the compass needle." ... Compass needles outlining field lines . ...